Wriggling Sticks

27 Sep, 2018 - 7 years ago

This was my regular commute home but on this particular night I came across three snakes instead of the odd bandicoot or three.
I nearly ran over a little snake and it's hard to see in the video but you can definitely see me swerve to avoid it at 18:19:54 (15 seconds into the video).
I was flagged down by another cyclist (no media release for him sorry) to avoid the 2nd snake at 18:21:43 (38 seconds in) and turned the other way briefly to flag another rider down with my headlight before turning back to wait for the snake to move off the path.
I stopped for a third snake at 18:31:05 (3 min 5 seconds into the video) and warned a following rider by waving but he still got a bit of a shock.

Incident location

Incident details

Date of incident

27/09/2018 06:20PM

Incident type

Animal encounter

Location of incident

-27.41576527020254, 153.01162247384957